Posts tagged with 'games'
Matt Bok is back yet again (again!) for an extra long, extra special episode. (Check out episode 16 and episode 26 for his previous episodes). Just in time for the holiday season, we discuss the SNES Classic, NES Classic, Nintendo Switch, Atari Box, and other stuff.
Tons of show notes:
- The NES Classic and SNES Classic
- Virtua Racing (used the "SVP" chip)
- Panzer Dragoon
- Super Mario Advance series
- Super Mario Advance = Super Mario Bros. 2
- Super Mario Advance 2 = Super Mario World
- Super Mario Advance 3 = Yoshi's Island (aka Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island)
- Super Mario Advance 4 = Super Mario Bros. 3
- SNES had a "mode 7" feature, you can learn about it and F-Zero in this video by Jeremy Parish
- Games that Matt mentioned as notable "omissions" from the SNES classic:
- The SNES Classic has indeed been hacked, and there was a message left by Nintendo
- The Ataribox. As of today, there is a "trailer" and a few photos. That's it.
- Ouya
- The M2 (from Matsushita Group, which is now known as Panasonic)
- Press conference about the M2 at E2 (1995)
- Micro Center is a computer store.
- Blade Runner 2049 trailer (which features the Atari logo)
- Might be a good time to brush up on your Atari history
- RetroN 77, by Hyperkin
- Vectrex
- Check out episode 035 with my brother Nathan to get some idea of why old consoles don't work so well with newer TVs.
- Nintendo Switch
- The "Mario game on the Wii U with the cats" I assume refers to Super Mario 3D World
- Is Game Boy Classic next?
- Books by Matt Bok:
- Check out some videos of Matt Bok's standup comedy
Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical.
Theme music is "Crosscutting Concerns" by The Dirty Truckers, check out their music on Amazon or iTunes.
Matt Bok is back again, and he discusses retro games and a few tech products that retro gamers might want to check out.
Show notes:
- Racing the Beam, a book about the amazing stuff that Atari developers were able to do with extremely primitive hardware.
- Hyperkin, the makers of the Retron 3 and the Retron 5
- Return of the Jedi arcade game. I love the voice samples in this game.
Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical.
Theme music is "Crosscutting Concerns" by The Dirty Truckers, check out their music on Amazon or iTunes.
Welcome back to another "Weekly Concerns" (after skipping a week). This is a post-a-week series of interesting links, relevant to programming and programmers. You can check out previous Weekly Concerns posts in the archive.
- If you haven't seen Seth Petry-Johnson's Patterns of Effective Test Setup presentation yet, you should at least check out his slides.
- Source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows is now available.
- You can play Missile Command with a YouTube video. Just go to any YouTube video, like this one, and type "1980".
- Mark Greenway and myself did an introductory presentation on WordPress with Azure through the MVP Mentor program. A recording of WordPress with Azure is now available.
If you have an interesting link that you'd like to see in Weekly Concerns, leave a comment or contact me.
There was a period of time that I was really into the game show Jeopardy!
I even had aspirations of becoming a contestant on the show, but alas it hasn't happened yet. But I did some research, and tried to figure out the best way to study/practice.
One of the best ways to practice is to actually play along with episodes of the show. Karl Coryat, a contestant on the show in 1996, came up with a way that you can practice at home and track how well you are doing. I started doing this, but it was somewhat tedious to do it with pen/paper or even an Excel sheet, so I wrote a little HTML/JavaScript to do most of the tedious stuff for me.
You can check out my Coryat Scorekeeper now on Github. It's actually a pretty old piece of code at this point (it uses jQuery 1.4.0, which I believe was the latest release at the time I wrote it). It could probably use a fresh coat of paint (and an updated reference for the average Coryat score), but it's still functional!
